1. Librarians participated in a professional development pilot involving eportfolios to document their activities. They created portfolios using various domains and typologies of activities, and participated in workshops. 2. Most found the process of documenting and reflecting on their activities to be useful, though some had issues with technical difficulties or lack of ownership of their portfolios. The domains provided a framework but did not always map directly to all librarian work. 3. Going forward, some plan to continue using their pilot portfolios while others want to start new portfolios with a different approach. Most felt reflection was useful, but the level and format of reflection needed further consideration for librarians not involved in teaching.

1. National forum PDF pilot: HECA Librarians
Rob McKenna
LEARNING FROM TEACHING

2. TIMELINE

3. ACCREDITING PD

4. DOMAINS

5. TYPOLOGY

6. TYPE

7. COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
Kickstart – discussion
Twitter – PD pilot
Workshop – portfolio and metadata
Video – Wordpress
PDF Pilots home and Teaching and learning
Worhksop – wordpress
Workshop – wordpress
Workshop – wordpress and reflection

8. MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

9. MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
• Two initial setup meetings
• Four workshops on the portfolios

11. REFLECTION AND DOMAINS
Brookfield (2017) – Four lenses (adapted)
• The self
• Literature and research
• The patron/student
• Colleagues

12. MOON DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNALS

13. ALL WORDSWORTH ON Y’ALL
• I don't want to get all Wordsworth at this point! I do however think that this is true. Your first
draft should necessarily and correctly be narrative. When I give feedback on a reflection and
suggest how it might develop, and the areas that you could profitably add to it this in no way
invalidates your reflection. It just suggests that there is further work you can do to make it more
reflective in the sense that we are looking for.
• This also, I hope, will help you navigate the tension between public and private.. Perhaps your
draft reflections should only. always be password protected and you should only present in
public your worked on complete reflections. These would present the self (perform) as a
learning reflective practitioner and would therefore be suitable for public consumption in the
context of professional development. They would not be dishonest, think of it as the equivalent
of only publishing the peer reviewed version of a paper, rather than your draft which was
improved,
•
• Reference
• Moon, J. (2006) Learning journals. London, Routledge

14. DIEP
• Describe
• Interpret
• Evaluate
• Plan

15. MY SIMPLE SUGGESTION
• Past
• Present
• Future

16. DOMAINS

17. BECOMING DIGITAL

18. CAPABILITIES

19. IDENTITY
‘We act as if being a man or being a woman is actually an
internal reality or something that is simply true about us...
but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all
the time and reproduced all the time'
(Judith Butler)

20. EUPORTFOLIO

21. PROCESS

22. EPORTFOLIO PROCESS

23. PROCESS

24. EPORTFOLIO PRODUCT

25. PRODUCT

26. THE PORTFOLIOS

27. PORTFOLIOS

35. OWNERSHIP
• Tentative
• Lack of a sense of ownership
• Technical difficulty?

37. NUMBER OF POSTS ON PORTFOLIOS
0
5
10
15
20
25
a b d e f g h i j k
#Posts
#Posts

38. BREAKDOWN
• 95 posts in
• 100 typologies / categories (4 non categoriesed)
• 159 Domains listsd (13 missing domains)
• C10 posts mean and median

39. 42%
27%
21%
10%
Typology of activity
Collab. non-accredited
Unstruc. non-accredited
Structured non-accredited
Formal Accredited

40. 23%
18%
30%
19%
10%
Domains
Professional Communication
and Dialogue
Professional Identity Values
and Development
Professional Knowledge and
Skills
Personal and Professional
Digital Capacity
The Self

41. SEVEN(ISH) PROMPTS
•
1 What (if) did you find useful about the process?
2 How do the NF Domains map to your work? Is it a useful lens to view your CPD?
3 Did the typologies help you think of how your CPD
4 What would you do differently and what did you do that worked well?
5 How do you plan to carry this forward? Do you plan to use this or take it to make a new
eportfolio?
6 Do you think this process is useful for librarians, even if not "teaching"?
7 Did you find the reflection useful? Is the portfolio a good place for it? What did you
learn? (particularly about yourself and your learning/development)

43. 1
What (if) did you find useful about the
process?

44. 1 USEFUL
Collegiality
“The most useful aspect …was the informal networking.”
“-The networking aspect was a highlight”
“I liked the collaborative aspect of the project”
Focus on CPD
“a chance to think about the CPD or lack of it in certain areas”
“think about what I do with regard to CPD “
Also cataloguing activities

45. 2
How do the NF Domains map to your
work? Is it a useful lens to view your
CPD?

46. 2 DOMAINS
Positive
“a useful way to consider some aspects of my work”
“I found them really useful… really captured the rounded nature of PD activities”
Less positive
“I am unsure if the current NF domains map directly to my work/training….
certainly a good starting point”
“A bit “meh”, to be honest”
“I’m still a bit confused about ‘The Self’ Domain”

47. 3
Did the typologies help you think of how your
CPD

48. 3 TYPOLOGIES
Generally met with approval
“The typologies allowed me to consider activities as CPD that I may not have
previously, particularly some of the unstructured and non-accredited.
They also allow me to see areas that I might focus on developing further.”
“helped me to realise that activities I wouldn’t have originally marked down as
CPD are actually relevant.”
“provided scope to capture the informal as well as formal “

49. 4
What would you do differently and what
did you do that worked well?

50. WHAT DID YOU DO WELL
“I decided to use the DIEP Reflective writing… think I might have gone a bit off
tangent without it!”
“The discipline of simply documenting activities “
“the collaboration with other professionals - librarians and non-librarians.”

51. WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY
Time
“updated my eportfolio on the day of the activity!
“attend a few more group sessions”
“I would not record all interactions as part of the CPD process”
“I would structure the process so that there was allocated time each week for it. “
Look
Be bolder visually.

52. 5
How do you plan to carry this forward? Do
you plan to use this or take it to make a
new eportfolio?

53. STICK OR TWIST?
Stick
“I think I’ll use this one going forward, although a little bit of rebranding…”
“would …use this in future… a little dishonest to make a new ePortfolio”
Twist
“I do intend on continuing in some capacity… . I don’t intend carrying on with my
eportfolio in the form it is now however. The process of documenting for such a
specific audience did influence the writing, so I am inclined to rethink my
approach there. I may separate documenting my day to day activities from my
public portfolio.”
“I would probably start with a new e-portfolio

54. 6
Do you think this process is useful for
librarians, even if not "teaching"?

55. USEFUL FOR LIBRARIANS?
Yes
“Yes, I definitely think this is useful. It helped me to see the value that Librarians
bring to colleges and it’s always good to market yourself and the work that your
library does.”
“Yes definitely. Librarians need not so much CPD per se as situational awareness, “
Yes i think it was useful in terms of creating awareness of the different learning
channels that we use.”
Maybe
“I am not sure… I think if I am to develop an ePortfolio for Library Staff, as most do
not teach, then I am going to have to think about looking at the domains in the
framework”

56. 7
Did you find the reflection useful? Is the
portfolio a good place for it? What did you
learn (particularly about yourself and your
learning/development)?

57. PROCESS / REFLECTION
Reflection
“I am not sure that a reflection is necessary for all of the CPD that I
would engage in/with. ”
“as it pushed me from merely describing PD activity to reflecting on it to also
capturing how the PD activity altered practice in the work setting”
“Returning to those initial entries and reflecting on a deeper level with the benefit
of some distance is an approach I intend to continue with. This second
reflection is where I might consider staying with the e-portfolio.”

58. PROCESS / REFLECTION
Learnings
“I learn by doing, and the theory comes afterwards, if at all. That maybe a lot of
my learning is driven by fear of failure and the need to be more knowledgeable
than others. ”
“I have learned that I need to do it more often, I intend to put time aside to
continue to engage in CPD using the ePortfolio from the T&L Pilot.”
“I learned that sharing your PD activity with other people and they with you is
hugely beneficial. It's like collaborative reflection.”

59. SOLUTIONISM
"There are a lot of
advantages that
we're still trying to
learn about"
Stars and Stripes 2016

60. FURTHER WORK
• Adapt portfolios for librarians (non-teaching)
• Look at library domains and CPD
• Support network on digital skills
• Analyse the reflective discourse

61. SELECTED READINGS
• Europortfolio project –see
http://www.eportfolio.eu/resources/contributions/technology/eportfolios-openledgers-
openbadges-and-blockchains
• Stephen D. Brookfield (2017) Becoming a critically reflective teacher. Jossey Bass
• Jennifer Moon (2006) Learning journals: a handbook for reflective practice and
professional development. Taylor & Francis